Re: xfs_bmap Cannot allocate memory

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:44:35PM +0200, Michael Weissenbacher wrote:
> Hi Dave!
> > 
> > Sounds like your memory is fragmented. IIRC, bmap tries to map all
> > the extents in a single buffer, and that might cause problems for
> > files with large numbers of extents. ENOMEM can occur if an
> > internal buffer cannot be allocated to hold all the extents to be
> > mapped in one call.
> > 
> > Try using the "-n <num_extents>" option to reduce the number of
> > extents gathered per ioctl call and see if that makes the
> > issue go away.
> > 
> Thanks, i've tried that:
> # xfs_bmap -n 3 /backup/tmp/cannot_allocate_memory.vhd
> /backup/tmp/cannot_allocate_memory.vhd:
> 	0: [0..134279]: 444610560..444744839
> 	1: [134280..134399]: hole
> 	2: [134400..206495]: 433472688..433544783
> # xfs_bmap -n 70000 /backup/tmp/cannot_allocate_memory.vhd | tail -n1
> 	69999: [244690864..244690871]: 1173913592..1173913599
> # xfs_bmap -n 75000 /backup/tmp/cannot_allocate_memory.vhd | tail -n1
> 	74999: [253425664..253425671]: 1284986768..1284986775
> # xfs_bmap -n 80000 /backup/tmp/cannot_allocate_memory.vhd | tail -n1
> 	79999: [262287488..262289015]: hole
> # xfs_bmap -n 85000 /backup/tmp/cannot_allocate_memory.vhd | tail -n1
> 	84999: [272607184..272613335]: 1497107288..1497113439
> # xfs_bmap -n 90000 /backup/tmp/cannot_allocate_memory.vhd | tail -n1
> xfs_bmap: xfsctl(XFS_IOC_GETBMAPX) iflags=0x0
> ["/backup/tmp/cannot_allocate_memory.vhd"]: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> - Seems that xfs_bmap reads at maximum the number of extents that i
> specified with -n
> - Seems that the file has even more then 85000 extents

Ah, there's a mismatch betwenteh man page and the implementation,
then. The man page implies that "-n <num>" means query num extents
at a time to map the entire file. It's implemented as "map the first
<num> extents", though.

You could try this:

# xfs_io -f -c "fiemap -v" <file>

Because fiemap loops doing getting a small number of extents at a
time...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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